[Durham INC] Memorial Day at Fitzgerald family cemetery (Monday, May 30 @ 10AM)

[John Schelp]

      Robert Fitzgerald Family, circa 1890

    
    Historic Fitzgerald
          Family Cemetery Ceremony
          & Tour
    Memorial Day -- Monday, May 30 @ 10-noon

        Maplewood Cemetery Gate @ Kent Street near Morehead Avenue,
        Durham


        Free and Open to Everyone - Please Join Us!!!

    

    Sponsored by Pauli Murray Project, Preservation Durham and the
    Fitzgerald/Murray Family


    Parking Available: First Calvary Baptist Church, 1311 Morehead
    Avenue

    

    MORE
          INFO AND MAP

    

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    More
        than 112 African
        Americans are buried in the Historic Fitzgerald Family Cemetery
        including
        several pioneering citizens of Durham including Robert G. and
        Richard B.
        Fitzgerald. Both brothers served on behalf of the Union in the
        Civil War. 
    
Robert Fitzgerald
        came to North Carolina to teach newly freed African Americans.
        Robert and his
        wife Cornelia Smith Fitzgerald are grandparents to the
        nationally known lawyer,
        writer, poet, human rights activist and Episcopal priest, Rev.
        Dr. Pauli
        Murray.  Pauli Murray wrote
        eloquently of the family and early Durham history in her 1956
        book, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family.
      
    
Richard Fitzgerald
        became very wealthy as one of Durham's first brickmakers. He
        operated a kiln
        next to the cemetery. Many tobacco warehouses and Erwin Cotton
        Mill in Durham
        and Central Prison in Raleigh are made of Fitzgerald brick.
        Richard Fitzgerald
        was also a founder and the first president of Mechanics and
        Farmers Bank.

    Barbara
            Lau 
        Director,
            Pauli Murray Project 
        www.paulimurrayproject.org 
        919/613-6167 
           
         
         
        To build a better
              Durham the Pauli Murray Project engages a
              diversity of residents to lift up the vision and
              legacy of activist, scholar, feminist, poet, and Episcopal
              priest Pauli Murray
              in order to tackle enduring inequities
              and injustice in our community. 
           
        To
            join our mailing list, please
            send your email to balau at duke.edu 
        Look
            for us on Facebook

    
  
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